Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election behavior in the past to be altogether convinced. Possibly Nominee Hoover would say something ambiguous about Prohibition in the campaign which would open the way for Senator Borah to tip-toe back to the President's support not on the platform. Indiana's sage old Senator Watson summed up: "Senator Borah in the campaign will be where he always has been-supporting the Republican ticket...
...dole" then had to be reduced. This produced riots. Twice during the past six months Sir Richard Squires has been mobbed and roughly handled (TIME, Feb. 22 & April 18). In alarm the British Admiralty sent a warboat to St. John's, but Newfound landers, again on their best behavior, entertained His Majesty's blue-jackets so hospitably and quietly that they soon steamed away...
Credit for the B. E. F.'s good behavior went principally to 34-year-old Walter W. Waters, originator of the Washington march, who was selected last week as the B. E. F.'s commander-in-chief. Tall, lean, sunburned, Waters first saw service on the Mexican border. Then he went overseas as a sergeant for nearly two years with the 146th Field Artillery. Mustered out, he married a blonde slip of a girl from Valparaiso, Ind., took her to Oregon where he worked as superintendent of a canning factory, had a house...
After whispers between the Court and his lawyers, Fascist Hitler submitted to a fine of 800 marks ($190) for contempt of court plus 200 marks ($47) for unruly behavior, then quit the stand snarling, "Those Jewish lawyers were just trying to stage a bit of propaganda...
...without avail. Soon von Norwitz suspects her affair: once convinced that she has been unfaithful, he resigns his will to live. On his deathbed he consigns the lovers to each other. But the van Leydens have no such liberal ideas. Scandalized, outraged when they discover Julie's behavior, their confusion is twice confounded when she runs off to marry Alison. He has rubbed the lamp of his philosophy and like a lovely genie she must answer its peremptory call...